Painting

Artist:John Singer Sargent

Title: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

Date: 1882

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 221.93 x 222.57 cm

Country of origin: France

Current location: Museum of Fine Arts in Boston     

The painting depicts four young girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, in their family's Paris apartment. The painting's unusual composition was noted from its earliest viewings, initially its subject was interpreted simply as that of girls at play, but it has subsequently been viewed in more abstract terms, reflecting Freudian analysis and a greater interest in the ambiguities of adolescence. The four Daughters of Edward Darley Boit are, from left to right: Mary Louisa (1874-1945, about 8 years old at the time), Flourennce (1868-1919, about 14 yrs old), Jane (1870-1955, about 12 yrs old), and Julia (1878-1969, about 4 yrs old). None of the girls ever married, and both Flourennce and Jane, the two rear daughters, became to some extent mentally or emotionally disturbed. Mary Louisa and Julia, the front two girls, remained close as they grew older, and Julia, the youngest, became an accomplished painter in water-colors. 

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